Saturday, April 10, 2010

April 10 - Trails and Trials

Well, it's been a great run, however long it lasts (ending perhaps not with a bang but a purr...the attack of the kittens). Despite it all, page 6 of Song of Solomon: IV. Pulchra es (You Are Beautiful) and two transpositions up a fourth for Marilyn as Job (selections V. and the latter half of X.), followewd by the third rehearsal of Job with the rest of the cast checking in, as Sarita (Eliphaz the Temanite), Heather (Elihu), the leading/titular lady at center, Kate (Job's Wife), and Crystal (Satan / Zophar the Namaathite)

make great progress -- all attended by

Keisuke and

Harriet.

Mostly overcast,

with some sunbreaks, after the co-operative 5 weekdays, as we

break camp in Berkeley and

proceed to

Oakland

for

yet

more

Fresh Voices

rehearsals, followed by

dinner at

Wood Tavern,

returning

through

the

intensified

gloom to finish the publication-preparation of Psalm 18, fill out health-care application, and sleep intermittently.

In Re Mi

Mark Alburger (b. 1957, Upper Darby, PA) is an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer of postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He is Music Director of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music (P.O. Box 2842 San Anselmo, CA 94960) and New Music, Music Critic for Commuter Times, and Instructor in Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson, Joan Panetti, and James Freeman at Swarthmore College (B.A.); Jules Langert and Ted Blair at Dominican University (M.A.); Roland Jackson at Claremont University (Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger has composed 181 major works over the past 35 years, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue is being issued on discs from New Music ($15 / P.O. Box 2842, San Anselmo, CA 707-474-7273).
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